He’s coached in an Olympic gold medal game and won a FIBA World Championship for Spain. A 32-year coaching career has taken him across Europe and landed him on Nick Nurse’s Raptors’ coaching staff in 2018, which of course resulted in a NBA title a year later.
In short, Sergio Scariolo has seen some things in his long, storied coaching career. But he’d never had a night like he did on Friday.
With Nurse and five of his assistant coaches forced out of their game against the Rockets due to health and safety protocols, Scariolo was thrust into head coaching duties.